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Edward Snowden!
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Monthly Archives: December 2011
We Are The 99%
In progress! 99% 99% is a public art/street art project that speaks to the need for a fundamental shift in the status quo approach to current economic models, labor, the environment, human rights, and the health and wellbeing of all. … Continue reading
Occupy Y’All Street: Three Generations Try To Escape Poverty Through Occupy Columbia
Posted in CAPITALISM, DEMOCRACY, GOVERNMENT, GREED, OCCUPY ALL STREETS!, OCCUPY!
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667 Shotwell Projects: NEXT
CIO! is honored to be included in the inaugural issue of 667 Shotwell Project’s NEXT, a forum of proposals for ideas, works, and tactics for what is NEXT. From NEXT: Based on recent events and occupations of public space nationally, … Continue reading
Posted in art, ARTISTS/ACTIONS, CAPITALISM
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The Death of Kim Jong-il and the Future of U.S. Relations with the Two Koreas
Christine Ahn from the Korea Policy Institute and the Global Fund for Women weighs in on how the United States has impacted and shaped the ongoing war between North and South Korea through it’s heavy military presence (the Korean peninsula … Continue reading
Anticapitalism and Occupation
Re-posted from THECURRENTMOMENT 19 Dec The novelty of Occupy in relation to the past decades of anticapitalism has been to introduce one other way of thinking about alternatives – the camp itself as a kind of autonomous, self-sufficient community, with … Continue reading
Posted in CAPITALISM, CIVIL LIBERTIES, OCCUPY ALL STREETS!, OCCUPY ALOHA!, OCCUPY LA!, OCCUPY OAKLAND!, OCCUPY PORTLAND!, OCCUPY SF, OCCUPY STUDENT DEBT!, OCCUPY THE WORLD!, OCCUPY WALL STREET, OCCUPY!, TAX THE RICH, THE 99%, UNEMPLOYMENT, Wall Street, WE ARE THE 99%
Tagged anticapitalism, capitalism, corporate capitalism, OCCUPY, occupy wall street, The Platypus Society, THECURRENTMOMENT
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A new democracy in Iraq? Activist Yanar Mohammed Challenges U.S. Claims
12/16/11 www.democracynow.org Now that remaining U.S. troops are leaving Iraq, how has this long and drawn-out war affected Iraqi citizens and, in particular, the women of Iraq? Activist Yanar Mohammed, president of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq, addresses … Continue reading
Posted in DEMOCRACY, GOVERNMENT, INTERNATIONAL
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Current Day McCarthysim
a dark day indeed..as the National Defense Authorization Act was signed by President Obama, the SOPA Vote has been delayed (2012). For those of you that do not know about SOPA, it’s the Stop Online Piracy Act – yet another … Continue reading
Marx’s Grundrisse
I recently started reading Karl Marx’s Grundrisse der Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie, translated as either the Foundations or the Outline of the Critique of Political Economy. The common internet translation of Grundrisse is either “ground plans” or “floor plans”. On searching for Grundrisse, Google … Continue reading
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The Real Terrorists
Last night I watched the documentary “The End of America,” based on Naomi Wolf’s 2007 book by the same name. The film follows Wolf on a lecture tour through which she draws a parallel between the steps used by Hitler, … Continue reading